" " in Mexico. Gregg's Commerce of the Prairies. Dr. Wislizenius's Memoir on New Mexico. Stephens's Central America. " Yucatan. Gama--Piedras Antiguas de Mejico. El Museo Mejicano. Isidro R. Gondra's Notes on Mexican Antiquities, in the 3rd vol. (with plates) of the Mexican translation of Prescott. Nebel--Voyage Arquéologique et Pittoresque en Mexique. Memoir of the Mexican Minister of Foreign and Domestic Affairs on the condition of the country in 1846. Idem in 1849. Memoir of the Mexican Minister of War, 1844. Idem in 1846. Idem in 1849. Memoir of the Mexican Minister of Finance on the condition of the Treasury, 1841. Idem in 1846. Idem in 1848. Idem in 1849. Memoir on the Agriculture and Manufactures of Mexico, by Don Lucas Alaman, 1843. Memoir on the Liquidation of the National Debt, by Alaman, 1845. Noticias Estadisticas del Estado de Chihuahua, 1834. Noticias Estadisticas sobre el Departamento de Querétaro, 1845. Nos. 1, 2, 3, Boletin del Instituto Nacional de Geografia y Estadistica, 1839-1849. Collecion de documentos relativos al departamento de Californias, 1846. El Observador Judicial de Mejico. Semanario de la Industria Mejicana. El Mosaico Mejicano. Journal des Economistes. Lyell's Geology. Lerdo--Consideraciones sobre la condicion social y politica de la Republica Mejicana en 1847. CONTENTS. BOOK I. CHAPTER I.--Discoveries of Cordova and Grijalva--Cortéz appointed by Velasquez--Biographical notice of Cortéz--Cortéz Captain General of the Armada--Equipment of the Expedition--Quarrel of Velasquez--Firmness of Cortéz--Expedition departs under Cortéz, 13 CHAPTER II.--Olmeda preaches to the Indians--Aguilar and Mariana--interpreters--Cortéz lands--interview with the Aztecs--Diplomacy--Montezuma's presents--Montezuma refuses to receive Cortéz, 22 CHAPTER III.--Cortéz founds La Villa Rica de la Vera Cruz--Fleet destroyed--March to Mexico--Conquest of Tlascala--Cholula-- Slaughter in Cholula--Valley of Mexico--Cortéz enters the Valley--Gigantic Causeway--Lake of Tezcoco--Reception by Montezuma--Spaniards enter the capital, 28 CHAPTER IV.--Description of the City of Tenochtitlan--Montezuma's way of life--Market-place--Cortéz at the Great Temple--Description of it--Place of Sacrifice--Sanctuaries--Huitzilopotchtli-- Tezcatlipoca--Danger of Cortéz--Montezuma seized--Montezuma a prisoner--his submissiveness--Arrival of Narvaez--Cortéz's diplomacy--Cortéz overcomes Narvaez, and recruits his forces, 35